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T-Mobile USA will begin offering an unlimited calling plan, a move that comes in the wake of Boost Mobile's decision to launch a $50 per month unlimited plan.
The carrier, the fourth largest in the United States, will offer a $50 per month unlimited voice service to customers, beginning with a trial in the San Francisco area. T-Mobile said it was offering the option to customers who had been with the carrier for 22 months or more. It will also offer a $135 rebate for customers who switch their wireless service to T-Mobile.
The move comes as T-Mobile faces increasing uncertainty. The carrier added 621,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2008, its lowest quarterly addition since the second quarter of 2006. Earlier this month, Matt Carter, the head of Boost Mobile, Sprint Nextel's prepaid unit, said that its $50 per month unlimited voice and data plan was peeling away subscribers from T-Mobile.
In the wake of the Boost move, analysts worried that the unlimited plan would spark a price war with Tier 1 operators. Additionally, in early February Sprint launched a plan aimed at giving perks to its longtime customers.
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | February 19, 2009 - 1:25pm
Why just San Francisco? If you T-Mo is going to offer a $50 all you can eat plan they should go big and make it a namtionwide offering at the same time.
As a long-time T-Mo customer (stood in line when they went live in Dallas as Voice Stream), I've come close to switching over disgust with their policies. Prime example - I was working for a handset manufacturer, DID NOT need a phone, and simply wanted to change my plan that was more fitting with my current calling patterns. I had long passed the initial contract period, but to change my plan, they locked me into a contract for another year. That sure didn't win them any points. The Boost plan makes it easy - no contracts, no fuss, no muss and now a good deal - what's not to like about that. T-Mo doesn't have a lot of time to get this right IMHO
Posted by Anonymous | February 20, 2009 - 9:29am
How about Metro PCS! Those guys have been offering $50, $45, $40 & $35 all you can eat plans in San Fran, Sacramento, Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, Tampa, and South Florida. Now they are in Philly, NYC, Boston and Vegas!! And the free roaming agreement with Cricket makes them almost nationwide. No contracts to boot! It's CDMA and it is crystal clear. T-Mobile is GSM and in my opinion sounds awful. I have had T-Mobile, Verizon, and Cingular phones in addition my Metro phone and Metro is up there with Verizon's quality.
Posted by Anonymous | March 10, 2009 - 11:46pm
Be careful of the $135 offer. It gives you the option of getting a new number but then Tmobile will not Honor the offer. Very tricky Tmobile I've got my eye on you.
Posted by Anonymous | June 19, 2009 - 10:40pm
The unlimited loyalty plan is not billed as advertised. 2 lines cost $149 and each additional is $49 This is troublesome.
Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2009 - 11:37pm
Uhhh NOOOOOO the Unlimited loyalty plan is 89.99 for two lines. each additional is 39.99. you are thinking of the regular unlimited, not unlimited loyalty.
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